The nurse caring for a client with an anxiety disorder knows to be most attentive to the nurse's:
1. Inability to assess the situation accurately.
2. Anxiety causing forgetfulness.
3. Inability to identify personal somatic problems.
4. Own overall feelings.
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Rationale: The nurse must be aware of his/her own feelings because anxiety may be transferred from the client to others. The inability to assess the situation accurately, inability to identify personal somatic problems, and anxiety causing forgetfulness may be part of the overall feelings.
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While teaching a patient to self-administer insulin, the patient asks the nurse, "Why are you telling me to rotate my sites when I inject the insulin? If I use the same area for injection every day, it will probably cause me less pain."
The nurse's best response is: A) "Injecting insulin into the same area causes scarring and delays the absorption of the drug." B) "That is a great question and researchers are investigating the possibility of patients using the same site for insulin injection in the future." C) "Until you are comfortable with self-administering insulin, feel free to inject in the same area, as it will cause you less discomfort." D) "Injecting insulin into the same area does not affect the way your body absorbs the drug, but can lead to dimpling of the skin."
Consider a feedback loop where the stimulus is an increase in blood sugar. If the feedback loop is a negative feedback loop, what would be the result of such a stimulus?
a. Increase in blood sugar levels b. Decrease in blood sugar levels c. Initial increase in blood sugar levels, followed by a decrease d. Initial decrease in blood sugar levels, followed by an increase
The nurse is concerned that an older client is experiencing an adverse effect from a prescribed medication. What did the nurse assess to make this clinical decision?
1. Altered memory 2. Altered organ responsiveness 3. Decreased manual dexterity 4. Decreased visual acuity
The nurse and a new nurse are caring for a child who will require palliative care. Which statement made by the new nurse would indicate a correct understanding of palliative care?
a. "Palliative care serves to hasten death and make the process easier for the family." b. "Palliative care provides pain and symptom management for the child." c. "The goal of palliative care is to place the child in a hospice setting at the end of life." d. "The goal of palliative care is to act as the liaison between the family, child, and other health care professionals."